Minister Fatakeshto

Minister Fatakeshto
Minister Fatakeshto
Soundtrack album by Jeet Gannguli
Released	2007
Recorded	2006
Studio	Shree Venkatesh Films
Genre	Film soundtrack
Language	Bengali
Label	SVF
Jeet Gannguli chronology
Singles from Minister Fatakeshto
	"Aami Minister Fatakesto"; Released: 6 Jul 2007; "Dhukupuku Buk"; Released: 7 Jul 2007; "Vandemataram"; Released: 12 Jul 2007;

Minister Fatakeshto
Minister Fatakeshto
Directed by	Swapan Saha
Written by	N. K. Salil
Starring	Mithun Chakraborty; Deepankar De; Koel Mallick; Soumitra Chatterjee; George Baker; Shankar Chakraborty; Locket Chatterjee; Kaushik Banerjee
Edited by	Suresh Urs
Music by	Jeet Gannguli
Release date	8 June 2007;
Running time	153 minutes
Country	India
Language	Bengali

Minister Fatakeshto is a 2007 Bengali language political action thriller film directed by Swapan Saha and produced by Shree Venkatesh Films. It is the sequel to MLA Fatakeshto (2006), and the second installment of the Fatakeshto series.^[1]^[2]^[3] The film stars Mithun Chakraborty, Koel Mallick, and Soumitra Chatterjee reprising their roles from the previous film with George Baker, Deepankar De, Shankar Chakraborty and Locket Chatterjee playing pivotal roles. The story, screenplay and the dialogues were written by N.K Salil, with soundtrack composed by Jeet Gannguli and action sequences designed by Judo Ramu. The film was a super-hit in the box office.

The film received mixed reviews from the critics. The critics praised the performances of Chakraborty, Koel Mallick and Chatterjee, dialogues written by N.K Salil, the music by Jeet Gannguli , the cinematography, but criticized the plot, the political portrayal and particularly the climax action sequence.

The song ''Ami Minister Fatakeshto'' was sung by Mithun Chakraborty himself, which topped the music charts on Sangeet Bangla. It was one of the highest grossing Bengali films of 2007.

Plot

The film continues after the events of MLA Fatakeshto. MLA turned Home Minister, Fatakeshto, (Mithun Chakraborty) calls for discipline and a pro-people attitude although he has a few co-ministers against him. With his usual dialogue "Marbo ekhaney, Lash porbe soshane" (I shall hit you here, but your body will fall at the crematorium), he bashes the goons right, left, and middle. Chaitali, a lady reporter is now reporting everything in "Star Ananda", a TV channel run by The Telegraph.

However, the Chief Minister (Soumitra Chatterjee) is in favor of Fatakeshto. With a 4000 crores loss in the Finance Department, Fatakeshto vows to take the Finance Ministry and recover the loss in seven days. The Chief Minister also bestows the duty to Fatakeshto of removing the FM (one of the goons). With many hurdles on the way, Mithun recovers almost Rs. 3700 crores loss by booking ministers for their misappropriation of funds but is left short of 300 crores.

In the meantime, the arch-villain calls all his group and plans to finish Fatakeshto. Further, he also calls for 48 Hours strike ("Bangla Bandh"), which Fatakeshto stops with his muscles. The villain then mixes dangerous germs in mineral water bottles which kills around 50 children in Bengal. This forces Fatakeshto to bow down in front of the villain and request life-saving medicine lying with him to save the suffering children. With someone reporting the mineral water mischief, Fatakeshto gets the arch-villain arrested for the crime soon.

In the showdown, the remaining 300 crores are being collected through public donations dropped in big mud hundies (Lakshmi Bhar). The villain comes out of jail on bail and loots the booty and takes it to an unknown destination to make Fatakehto responsible for the theft. One of the ministers who was with the villain somehow changes his mind and informs Fatakeshto the location where the booty is hidden. CM requests him to go back to his role of GOONDAGARDI (hooliganism) to recover people's money. Finally, Fatakeshto jumps into the den of the villains and fights around 200 to 300 karate masters. He finally kills the villain and captures the booty. The lost money is returned to the Chief Minister.

Cast

Mithun Chakraborty as MLA turned Home Minister Krishno Deb Chatterjee aka Phatakeshto, who later becomes the Finance Minister
Koel Mallick as Chaitali Roy (News Reporter of Star Ananda)
Soumitra Chatterjee as Chief minister of West Bengal, who dreams of Sonar Bangla
George Baker as Raj Burman, a ruthless businessman
Deepankar De as Finance minister Barun Mishra
Shankar Chakraborty as Advocate Biswanath Basak
Locket Chatterjee as Economist Manashi Mukherjee
Kaushik Banerjee as DCP of West Bengal Police
Dulal Lahiri as Pratap Nandi, Health Minister
Sumit Ganguly as Monotosh Panja, a local goon
N.K Salil as Local Coconut Seller.
Arindol Bagchi as Radhamohan Sarkar, A Kerosene dealer.

Production

Announcement

Following the success of MLA Fatakeshto(2006), SVF announced the sequel of it. N.K Salil started working on the project. Mithun Chakraborty and Koel Mallick were signed to do the film. Soumitra Chatterjee also nodded to reprise his role of the CM. Deepankar De, George Baker, Kaushik Banerjee and Dulal Lahiri were roped to play the antagonists. Shankar Chakraborty and Locket Chatterjee came on the board for another important roles.

Soundtrack

All lyrics are written by Priyo Chattopadhyay; all music is composed by Jeet Gannguli

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Dhukupuku Buk"	Kalpana Patowary	4:39
2.	"Vandemataram"	Kunal Ganjawala, Jeet Gannguli, Pamela Jain	4:07
3.	"Aami Minister Fatakesto"	Mithun Chakraborty	4:43

Awards

Year	Title	Award	Awardee	Result
	Anandalok Awards	Best Film	Minister Fatakeshto	Won
		Best Actor	Mithun Chakraborty	Won

Box office

Made at the budget of 2.50 crores, the film was released with 50 prints and collected over 2.85 crores while crossing 50 days.^[4]

References

^ "Tollywood top draws 2006". The Telegraph (Calcutta). 31 December 2006. Archived from the original on 21 July 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
^ Bandopadhyay, Sabyasachi (18 April 2009). "Pranab-Mithun no-show at Jangipur". Indian Express. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
^ "Filmi MLA sweeps stakes, CPM style". The Telegraph (Calcutta). 12 May 2006. Archived from the original on 30 June 2006. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
^ Nag, Kushali (11 October 2007). "Mithun vs Mithun". The Telegraph (Calcutta). Archived from the original on 3 October 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2016.

External links

Minister Fatakeshto at IMDb

[1] "Tollywood top draws 2006". The Telegraph (Calcutta). 31 December 2006. Archived from the original on 21 July 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2016.

[2] Bandopadhyay, Sabyasachi (18 April 2009). "Pranab-Mithun no-show at Jangipur". Indian Express. Retrieved 3 October 2016.

[3] "Filmi MLA sweeps stakes, CPM style". The Telegraph (Calcutta). 12 May 2006. Archived from the original on 30 June 2006. Retrieved 3 October 2016.

[4] Nag, Kushali (11 October 2007). "Mithun vs Mithun". The Telegraph (Calcutta). Archived from the original on 3 October 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2016.

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